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Anna Quindlen, Annette LeClair, Charles Austen, Cornel West, Declan Kiely, Edith Wharton, Elaine Bander, Elsa Solender, Hugh M. Kindred, Jane Austen, Jane Austen in Love, JASNA AGM 2012, Juliet McMaster, Maggie Lane, Marcia McClintock Folsom, Nancy Magnuson, Sandy Lerner, Sarah Emsley, Sheila Johnson Kindred, Susan Allen Ford, The Morgan Library and Museum
Anna Quindlen, Cornel West, Sandy Lerner, Maggie Lane, Elaine Bander, Juliet McMaster, Susan Allen Ford, Marcia McClintock Folsom, and many other excellent speakers will be talking about “Sex, Money and Power in Jane Austen’s Fiction” in New York next weekend. I’m really looking forward to hearing them at this year’s JASNA AGM.
Among the many interesting speakers on the program are Elsa Solender, former President of JASNA, who will talk about her new novel Jane Austen in Love; Nancy Magnuson, College Librarian at Goucher College, who will survey the history of JASNA as an organization; and Declan Kiely, the Robert H. Taylor Curator and Department Head of Literary and Historical Manuscripts at The Morgan Library and Museum, who will talk about The Morgan’s collection of Austen letters and manuscripts. And there’s a Regency Ball on Saturday night, and a run (or walk) to the Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday morning.
There’s also a FREE public lecture by Annette LeClair, called “In Search of the Real Jane Austen: What Does Sex, Money & Power Have to Do With It?” Anyone interested in attending is invited to email jasna2012A@gmail.com to reserve a seat. Annette’s talk is on Thursday, October 4th, from 1-2pm at the conference hotel, the Marriott Brooklyn Bridge. For more information on this event and two Austen-related concerts that are also open to the public, please visit the JASNA 2012 AGM public programs page.
For the first time, several members of the Nova Scotia Region of JASNA will be attending. This is very exciting because usually there are just two or three of us. Looking forward to seeing you all there! My dear friends Sheila Johnson Kindred (Saint Mary’s University) and Hugh M. Kindred (Dalhousie University) will give a talk on Saturday, October 6th on “Naval Prize, Power, and Passion in Persuasion” that draws on their extensive research into the career of Jane Austen’s brother, Captain Charles Austen. And I’ll talk about my favourite and second-favourite novelists, Jane Austen and Edith Wharton, on Friday, October 5th: “‘Nothing against her, but her Husband & her Conscience’: Jane Austen’s Lady Susan in Edith Wharton’s Old New York.”
Sarah Emsley 
Sarah,
Did you see in the last JASNA clipping email that I sent out that someone is very anxious to hear your talk at the AGM. It seems she shares your passion for JA and Edith Wharton. Also, the September issue of Vogue featured an article on EW and had lots of pictures of models and actors taken at her estate in New York. I saw it in a waiting room – I swear!
Christina
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Hi Christina,
Thanks for writing. Yes, I did see that post — by Mary C.M. Phillips of Caffeine Epiphanies. I’m looking forward to talking with her about JA and EW, and to seeing you and the rest of our NS contingent very soon.
I saw the Vogue article, too (online…). Did you see Kate Bolick’s piece in Slate, “Why Are There No Women Writers in Vogue’s Edith Wharton Spread?” (http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/09/19/vogue_edith_wharton_spread_why_were_there_no_women_writers_.html?fb_ref=sm_fb_plugin_activity) Good question, indeed.
Sarah
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Sarah,
Thank you for your insightful, well-considered and very well received talk at the AGM last weekend. Your breakout session turned me on to The Custom of the Country and I was, as you predicted, surprised by the surprise. I also enjoyed saying hello to you again and thank you for signing a (second) copy of JA’s Philosophy of the Virtues for me. I hope to see you next year in Minneapolis or in Montreal in 2014. Until then, all the best to you (and your daughter),
Paul Savidge
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Thanks so much, Paul. I’m happy to hear that you enjoyed the talk, and that you liked reading The Custom of the Country. Did you feel as if Wharton is tricking her readers, unfairly, with that surprise? Or did you think it worked well?
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